Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-14
O
 FROM ALL. QUARTERS. SALISBURY IN A DILEMMA Unable To Push Through
 Coercion.
 THE FUNERAL OF MRS. NEEBE A Long Lost Son Finds His
 Mother. HENRY WARD BEEcHER'S WILL. A BOOkkeeper Goes Crazy
 On Religion.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER'S WILL,
PROBLEMS FOR SALISBURY

The Speaker of the House Refuses to Prevent Obstruction by Cutting Oh Debate-OnIy Modified Form of Coercion if ny Likely to Go Through This Sessfon-The Dispute Concern ing the Fisheries.
 LONDON, March 13.-The government s plans are again disorganized; this time by the refusal of the Speaker of the House of Commons to give his consent to the scheme for shutting of debate at any time agreeable to the ministry. It was proposed to abandon the measure for introducing the closure into the rules and to rely upon the Speaker to quench obstructive proceedings under the power already possessed by him and which if stretched little beyond strict limits would doubtless be nearly as effective as
 the new rule which it had been intended to
 lay before the House for adoption The CO.,
 ercion bill was then to have been speedily
 brought in and hastened through it's various
 stages and finally passed by taking snap
 judgment on the Irish members who opposed
 it with obstructive ctics. The Speakers
 action, however, revives many difficulties.
 Without closure rules and without arbitrary
 rulings from the chair, no crimes bill has the
 remotest chance of passing except after an
 indefinitely long and tedious season of ob-
 struction and delay. But this is not the on-
 ly reason for believing that only modified
 form of coercion, if any, will be carried at
 this session. The attitude of the govern
 ment on the Irish question has changed per
 ceptibly either through irresolution or
 through conviction of error. There is now
 some disposition to relieve the crimes bill of
 it's severest features, but the more conspicu-
 ous tendency is to introduce first and secure
 the passage of a bill to suspend evictions. It
 is difficult to explain what has wrought so
 great an alteration in Lord Salisbury's
 views as to lead him to consent to measure
 which will be like the bill Parnell prepared
 at the opening of the session and which the
 government rejected with contumely. Proba-
 ply it is safe to assume that there has been
 no change in the Premier's feelings, but that
 he has become convinced that the public
 sentiment will not support him in extreme
 measures. The plan of campaign and the
 Glenbeigh eEictions horrors had a strong re-
 fex upon this side of the channel. It looks
 as though Mr. Gladstone would soon see vim dicated the prophecy with which he went out of the offiee-that the sober second
 thought of the people would gradually see the justice of leniency toward the Irish peo- ple The cabinet puzzled over the situation attheir meeting yesterday and finally dis persed without having reached definite con clusion as to the course of action to be pur- sued. Rt. Hon. Al. Balfour, the new see retary for Ireland, is credited with being the one who insists upon suspension of evic- tions as preface to stringent legislation. It is whispered that this is merely blind to throw all the responsibility for the change of fire Tt upon the new colleague and prevent the lack of settled principle in the cabinet from becoming too apparent. MT. Balfour as the result of his brief examination of affairs has hastened to announce that he confirms Sir Michael Hicks -Beach's report denying the existence of Invineibles or similar conspira- cies in Ireland. Any dangerous discont ant that exists he says is local and produces out l rages by bands of isolated local malcontents. The Dublin executive officials have abandon ! ed precautions for personal defense. The Marquis of Londonderry. whose very name seemed at first to insure his assassination, now goes about without pistols police ! guard MT. Balfour declares that he does not believe there Is any more need of protec- tion for the crown officials in Dublin than | there is for the ministers in London. The l
  ton of evictlons simultaneously with laws against boycotting, for the punishment of 1 local outrages and for the suppression l of seditious meetings. He believes that l with such a programme in operation l Ireland will wait peacefully in the hope of securing sweeping measure of agrarian re- | form Bafour is not believed by those who | know him best to have warmth of heart toward Ireland and his recommendations l are purely in the line of statesmanship. He I is in fact more of an opportunist than any of l his colleagues and has simply proposed what | he has as the easiest way of escaping the di- ! lemma in which the government has found | itself If the cabinet decide after all to pro- ceed with the crimes act without interfering | with the work of eviction Mir. Balfour will | still remain at his post. His convictions of | policy do not amount to 8 principle. All | that he is bent upon is to redeem the reputa- l tion of the government as to it's abilities to of legislation may be he is ready to face any 1 results of oppressive measures. l
 General Buffers evidence before the royal | commission continues to annoy and perplex l the government and the Tory leaders. | is +nd1 impossible ha n,,no to ignore nst the have an influence upon legislation The Con servatives having tried desperately, but in vain, to have his most damaging admissions garbled or suppressed in the report of the commission, are now devoting their efforts to minimizing the importance of what he has said. They assert that his inferences are un- sound and animated by radiealism; that his expressions are loose and resemble those of novice in political economy; but all this cannot efface from the memory of the people the fact that when he went to Ireland Bnl wer was an uncompromising Tory, ready to lash the Irish into obedience, and that the result of his personal observation has been a conviction that the law is to blame and not the people. The Parnellites and Gladston- ians are greatly cheered by the effect which the report has produced. If the government delay the introduction of an effective meas ure to protect Irish tenants the Liberals will introduce tenants bill so framed as to in- duce the support of the wavering Union ists.
 The anxiety of the government to settle the fisheries dispute is increased by the re- ceipt of advices that the Canadian fishermen are arming many vessels in readiness to maintain the exclusive rights upon the open | ing of the season. Hopes are entertained at | the foreign office that President Cleveland | and Secretary Bayrd, who are believed to be | we'll disposed toward a peaceful settlement, | will during the recess of Congress refrain l from putting the retaliation billfinto practice l and that they will assent to the appointmentI I of an international commission to consider the fishery question: MT. Gladstone andi Lord Granville approvethe general policy of the government on the matter. MT: Bright is reported to have urged Minister Phelps toj advocate speedy settlement. He takes the ground that the dispute is not worth dis i turbing the peace of two great nations about. No answer has been received from Washing | ton to Lord Salisbury's suggestion for a | modus. vivendi. Vanity Fair says that Min. l ister 3Lelps' absence from London at the | present time is the subject of much remark in diplomatic circles and is believed to be
 s~xS khati in i1Y | dition of feeling in America respecting the fisheries it is expedient that he keep out of the way during the approaching court cere- monies. x.-z-- A Paralytie Cured by the Earthquake.
 LONDON, March -13.-Lord Churehili's
 health has been recruited and he returns to
 England about Easter. The story told at the
 time of the Reyiera earthquake of an old lady
 springing in terror from her bed and fleeing
 to the street, recovering suddenly the use of
 her 'imbs, refers tosMrs. Jerome, mother of
 Lady Churchill + ia reported that Mrs
 Jsro nes paralysis has entirely disappeaIed.